VALID Publications and Resources

 

Manuals
[Having a Say Resource Manual]
[To Stand Beside: Advocacy for Inclusion Training Manual]

Posters
VALID has a range of pictorial & plain English resources to assist services to both promote the involvement of people with disabilities in services and in the development of self-advocacy skills.
Click here for the posters Catalogue

Videos
Having a Say conference DVD Order form

Out of Print
Self Advocacy Training Manual.  This manual is now out of stock but a photocopy can be obtained for a small charge from the VALID office.  [Self Advocacy Training Manual]

Disability Consumer Standards Handbook
This handbook is now out of stock but can be downloaded in pdf format via this link Download Disability Consumer Standards Handbook

The following publications are out of stock and no longer available
Accommodation Planning
Human Relations and Sexuality Guide


The Having a Say Resource Manual:

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Is a resource for people with intellectual disability, aimed directly and personally at them, rather than being written for a group setting and aimed at support staff.  The manual :
  • provides practical advice and guidance staff and family members to assist them in 'empowering' people with intellectual disability to become strong self advocates.
  • is easy to access for people with different support needs
  • is easy to photocopy for lots of multiple uses
  • is easy to update with new pages

Click here to download brochure/order form in pdf format

Individual Workbook One:
Building Strong Self Advocacy

The Building Strong Self Advocacy Workbook is aimed directly at people with intellectual disability. It is hoped that people with intellectual disability will make their own way through Building Strong Self Advocacy, drawing wherever necessary on support and assistance from staff, family members, friends or fellow self advocates.

The Workbook looks at six important ‘Powers’ that everyone needs to be a strong self advocate. It asks the reader to check whether they have these powers, and encourages them to become ‘strong self advocates’.

Individual Workbook Two:
My Life, My Service

The My Life, My Service Workbook aims to:

VALID-8 Your Service:
Audit of Client Empowerment in Disability Services

VALID-8 Your Service aims to give disability service agencies a tool for measuring their performance in relation to client empowerment. It provides indicators of eight important client empowerment measures, as recommended by VALID.

VALID-8 Your Service can be used by services as a guide to the things they should be doing to empower clients to genuinely have a say which is heard.

Services may also choose to engage VALID to give an independent audit of their service using the VALID-8 assessment. Services that are VALID-8ed will be given their own Certificate of Client Empowerment to proudly display.


TO STAND BESIDE

THE ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION
TRAINING MANUAL

Empowering people who support, assist or represent people with intellectual disability.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE?

For the past two decades we have focused on getting people with intellectual disability out of congregate facilities and into more individualised, community-based services. But the process of community integration - which is about physically relocating people - is only the beginning.

The real challenge is still ahead of us - that of ensuring community inclusion. For many people with intellectual disability that challenge will only be met with the support of staff, parents and friends who are themselves able to grow from being simply workers, carers and instructors to become Champions, Defenders and Allies.

Are you ready for the challenge? Are you an effective advocate on behalf of people with intellectual disability?

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Out of Stock

Becoming a Self Advocate Training Manual

Please note that this manual is out of stock and no longer available for purchase however a photocopy of the manual can be provided for a small charge ..contact the VALID office.

The Becoming A Self Advocate Training Program is a curriculum resource for staff assisting people with intellectual disability to develop Self Advocacy skills. It is aimed directly at staff working with people with intellectual disability in an Adult Training and Support Service environment. Features:
  • Twenty easy-to-follow session plans to be covered over a typical ATSS term period.
  • Competency checklist throughout, ensuring ongoing evaluation of individual progress
  • Fully scripted activities, providing staff with simple language prompts to teach otherwise complex concepts.
  • A developmental approach to the teaching of self advocacy skills, beginning with basic self-awareness concepts and moving on to the complexities of G.S.P.'s and I.P.P.'s.

This program is designed to support the development of Client Council / Consumer Committees within ATSS's, but does not assume that every ATSS client will become involved in such groups. However, this program does assume that the skills of self advocacy are important for everyone to develop, and that the journey towards empowerment can even be fun!

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